Gleichlauf-Effekte in Preisen sollen anhand von Indexumstellungen des HDAX(vormals DAX100) überprüft werden. Konsistent mit dem Modell von Barberis u.a. (2005) kann für Indexaufnahmen und -entnahmen nicht fundamentalbasiertes Comovement aufgedeckt werden. Im Vergleich zu US-amerikanischen...

This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm’s profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...

Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it...

Gleichlauf-Effekte in Preisen sollen anhand von Indexumstellungen des HDAX bzw. vormals DAX100 überprüft werden. Konsistent mit dem Modell von Barberis u.a. (2005) kann für Indexaufnahmen und -entnahmen nicht fundamentalbasiertes Comovement aufgedeckt werden. Im Vergleich zu US-amerikanischen...

Für eine Gruppe von DAX-Unternehmen wird die Bedeutung von Noise Trading für das Pricing von Stamm- und Vorzugsaktien untersucht. Dabei kann für Renditen von Long-Short Portfolios gebildet aus Index- und Nicht-Indexgattung Excess-Comovement mit dem Markt nachgewiesen werden. Unter der...

This paper analyses whether freedom of decision as a crucial precondition of normative deci-sion theory is questioned by ethics and neurobiology. It argues for an understanding of busi-ness ethics which sees the economic agents’ freedom of decision as the necessary basis for handling ethical...

Entrepreneurship education has two purposes: To improve students’ entrepreneurial skills and to provide impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging the rest. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those not...

Due to the rising relevance of the economy and economic questions in the 20th century, Business Administration has become an important subject in higher education. Its fast growing student numbers during the last decades show its weight within the higher education institutions, even though it is...

In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold up. We study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Firms’ choice of licensing contract is studied in the context of a patent portfolio race. We show that high...

Entrepreneurship education has two purposes: To improve students’ entrepreneurial skills and to provide impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging the rest. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those not...